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How Facebook leadership sidelined AI experts and weakened initiatives to clean up misinfo, because doing so would undermine Zuckerberg's desire for growth — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience. — It was March 23, 2018 …
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| The Markup: |
Citizen Browser project's Split Screen tool shows Facebook's different News Feeds for Trump and Biden voters, based on data from 2,500+ users across the US — Facebook's recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what?
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, sold an NFT of his work for $69M, through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Through a first-of-its-kind auction at Christie's — Until October, the most Mike Winkelmann — the digital artist known as Beeple — had ever sold a print for was $100.
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| Jason Gurwin / The Streamable: |
Netflix is running a test cracking down on password sharing, prompting some users to get their own account if they don't live with the owner of the account — Earlier this week, some Netflix subscribers began to notice that it might be a bit harder to “borrow” someone's password.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sues its former materials lead Simon Lancaster for allegedly stealing trade secrets and leaking them to the media — Apple is taking legal action against its former materials lead, Simon Lancaster, over allegedly leaking trade secrets to the media. The lawsuit accuses Lancaster of abusing his …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Google says it will soon let users add missing roads and realign, rename, or delete incorrect ones in Maps simply by “drawing” on them — Missing road? You can plot it yourself. — SHARE All sharing options — If you've ever been frustrated by a road simply not existing on Google Maps …
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| Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang closes its first day of trading at $49.25 a share, down from $63.50, after raising $4.2B in an IPO at a valuation of ~$60B — - South Korean e-commerce company Coupang made its market debut Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange through an IPO and is now trading under the ticker symbol “CPNG.”
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Crypto lending and borrowing service BlockFi raises $350M Series D at a valuation of $3B, bringing its total raised to around $450M — If there were any doubt about a cryptocurrency boom, we need look no further than at the explosion of growth of certain companies in the space.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook is making in-stream ads available on one-minute videos and is testing ads that look like stickers in Stories — Ads integrated into content — Facebook introduced Stories to its platform four years ago, mostly as a way to encourage people to post content that wasn't highly produced or necessarily photogenic.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
House and Senate Democrats announce a $94B proposal to make broadband internet access more accessible and affordable — Thirty House and Senate Democrats unveiled a new $94 billion proposal Thursday to make broadband Internet access more accessible and affordable nationwide …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Kuo: all four iPhone 13 models will feature larger batteries with higher capacities, making them heavier than iPhone 12 models — Apple appears to be improving the iPhone's battery life with the iPhone 13 lineup, using a number of design changes, bigger batteries, and efficiency improvements.
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CNET, Laptop Mag, MUO, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, Gizmodo, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, iMore, Softpedia News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, KnowTechie, and phonearena.com. Tweets: @lanceulanoff
| Justin Bariso / Inc.com: |
Google's new efforts to help job seekers include three new certificate programs and a Search feature that lets people find jobs for their education level — This morning, Google is announcing the next steps in its plan to disrupt the world of education, including the launch of new certificate programs …
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The Keyword, ZDNet, and TechRepublic
Tweets: @inc, @mmnjug, @sundarpichai, @inc, @sundarpichai, @therealmarvin, and @kent_walker
| The 8-Bit: |
Researchers demonstrate a browser-based side-channel attack that works even if JavaScript is blocked, affecting Intel Core, Samsung Exynos, Apple's M1, others — A team of researchers has demonstrated a new browser-based side-channel attack that works even if Javascript is blocked … | Asha Barbaschow / ZDNet: |
Australia's government has put out a call for submissions on internet browser defaults, following its media bargaining code, with a focus on Apple and Google — The ACCC is concerned with the choice of browser options afforded to Australians. — With the News Media Bargaining Code out of the way …
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Australian Competition …, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, and iMore
Tweets: @acccgovau, @rohan_p, and @aoifewhite101
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
In a complaint with the EEOC, a Black applicant alleges Facebook rejected her application due to a lack of “culture fit”, despite her qualifications — A Black woman passed over for a job at Facebook told federal regulators that even though she was exceptionally qualified for the position …
Tweets: @prflaw, @hypervisible, @willoremus, and @ryantate
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Researcher publishes a proof of concept on GitHub that uses vulnerabilities exploited by hackers to breach Microsoft Exchange servers; GitHub deleted the code — Microsoft-owned Github quickly deleted the code, which exploited vulnerabilities apparently used by Chinese hackers to break into a series of companies.
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Ars Technica, CyberScoop, TechRepublic, DomainTools, Dark Reading, and The Record
Tweets: @hackingdave, @lorenzofb, @shotgunner101, @campuscodi, and @taviso
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Gather, whose video calling software employs spatial audio for virtual HQs or hosting casual, off-site events, raises $26M Series A led by Sequoia Capital — Gather helps people, well, gather in virtual spaces for any reason, whether it be for weddings, magic conventions, or, just a regular day at work.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China is considering a record fine, exceeding Qualcomm's $975M fine, against Alibaba, which may face softer treatment if it distances from Jack Ma — E-commerce company to face softer treatment than its Ant affiliate, provided it distances itself from founder Jack Ma
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PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @sofiamcfarland, @bychunhan, @bobdavis187, @birdyword, @joshchin, @lilkuo, and @lingling_wei
| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Instacart appoints Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman to its board, signaling IPO plans; source: Instacart has $1.5B+ in cash after last week's fundraising — - Startup's founder Mehta views Snowflake CEO as a ‘coach’ — Company sitting on more than $1.5 billion in cash, person says
Tweets: @levynews and @lizette_chapman
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
Amazon has opened 11 Amazon Fresh stores around the US, with plans for at least 28 more — As many businesses struggled to survive the pandemic, Amazon.com Inc. was quietly building a national grocery chain. — The first Amazon Fresh store opened to the public in Los Angeles in September.| Stephen Warwick / iMore: |
Twitter says it is testing displaying large images, instead of cropped previews, on iOS and Android and will add support for 4K photo uploads — “Sometimes it's better said with a picture or a video.” — What you need to know — Twitter is testing new features that will let you see a single image in full on your timeline.
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| Vittoria Elliott / Rest of World: |
Experts say Russia accidentally blocked domains with the characters “t.co”, like Microsoft.com, as well as gov. websites, in an attempt to slow down Twitter — Reminder: Internet censorship can have unintended consequences. — Russian internet users began noticing something strange … | Reuters: |
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